Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I installed Ubuntu right on top and it worked immediately. Issue closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Didn't the installer offer to create user accounts right after it did root? I use netinst exclusively, and it always does for me. OTOH, it also always installs only the CL interface. So I log in as root, run aptitude, and install "xserver-xorg" and "

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:11AM -0600, Ray Lozano wrote: > Thanks, Umarzuki, but I still got the same result: no X windows. In root, why not run "depmod -a" to generate modules.dep and map files. I hit similar bug. I do not know where it came from but this fixed it. What system are you runn

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks, Juha, I ran the commands you suggested and this is what /root/xorg.conf.new contains. I don't see any error messages, but I do see my graphics card. Still no X windows. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0"

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks, Umarzuki, but I still got the same result: no X windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Juha Tuuna
Ray Lozano wrote: > ... > I discovered after booting into the "single user" mode, that I can log > in to the command line as root. After I exit root, the machine then > hangs just like it did upon reboot as described above with a blank monitor. > ... In single user mode try to let Xorg to do the

Re: Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/6 Ray Lozano > Thanks for the suggestion, Robert. > > I downloaded the complete CD 1 and re-installed but I got the exact same > result. Even after "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg"? I don't know if this will solve the drive stopping problem but give it a shot anyway. > > > Ray > >

Re: Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-05 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks for the suggestion, Robert. I downloaded the complete CD 1 and re-installed but I got the exact same result. Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-05 Thread Robert Hodgins
> The graphic installation from small CD went well but could not boot into > the graphic login afterward. I just get a blank monitor and the hard > drive stops activity. > > I re-installed a couple of times, hoping that something would change. No > luck. Is the "small CD" the netinst? I tried sev